RE: How many password cracking programs are there?

I know Dave Kleiman already mentioned it, but take a look at a chapter
from Mark Burnett's book (tech edited by Dave) dealing with this and
similar issues:
http://www.syngress.com/book_catalog/342_PSWRD/sample.pdf

Andrew Williams
Vice President & Publisher
Syngress Publishing
www.syngress.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Harold Winshel [mailto:winshel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 2:16 PM
To: Hollis via Rubicon Recluse; security-basics@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: How many password cracking programs are there?

It is a good overview of password cracking but I didn't see
that it addressed anything about strong passphrases.

At 01:12 PM 7/24/2006, Hollis via Rubicon Recluse wrote:
I think wikipedia did a pretty good job of explaining the
various ways
to crack passwords.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_cracking

At 03:44 PM 7/22/2006 +0000, winshel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
This may seem like a silly question but, in many discussions of how
windows password cracking programs work, it seems that the
same small
number of password cracking programs are mentioned (e.g., John the
Ripper,L0phtCrack,).

In order to understand how to protect a windows computer
from password
cracking software, it would seem necessary to understand how the
current password cracking programs work. But, aren't there
lots and
lots and lots of password cracking programs? There's tens of
thousands of virus programs - is there not a large number
of password
cracking programs?

Thanks.


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